Livid with teacher

We have a similar rule at my school to encourage students to plan their time at break times...yes they e been to the loo and had a drink etc and are ready to learn.. but, I let people go to the toilet as sometimes it is needed... and as a female teacher I know that..

the teacher may have just been sticking to the rules so it might be a need to address the school policy rather than hang the teacher, then draw and quarter her...

I am a teacher too and I do think the breaks should be used for that. Each lesson is only 45 minutes anyway. Recently the school was in lock down because someone had reported a smell of crack in one of the toilets and some definitely occasionally use them for a smoke...

Kids do sometimes abuse the toilet thing, easy enough to suss if they come back laden with chocolates and sandwiches. Once a girl did say she was coming on in the class, once again this was just after an ample break....I remember periods usually do start early. The others were being cheeky, assuming I did not know know enough of their language to understand. So I did not let her go on that occasion. That one was eventually expelled......

If a child genuinely seems unwell I let them go. And to have a wee too. But if it always seems to happen before I set them a listening comprehension test I ask them to remain. 

So I don't agree with lynch mobbing the teacher either, she may simply have been trying to establish boundaries. With teens there is always a tightrope between being strict enough and understanding enough and as someone said, the beleaguered teacher certainly is just human.

It just seems to accentuate the fact that autistic pupils really shouldn't be in these large classes where authority etc has to be maintained by the teacher in this manner. I still feel sad, angry and traumatised by my school experience.

Until I was 16 I was always in large classes with up to 28 pupils. Teachers felt they had to establish their authority - and more often than not I experienced that an example was set on me and I was ridiculed in front of the whole class. 

It is just horrible. You are under constant fear from attack from your classmates (don't do anything wrong or they will ridicule, constantly wondering if their reactions mean you did something wrong), you are straining to understand instructions and do things right (hopelessly untidy and clumsy, never have the right things with you, not knowing what you are supposed to be doing) and then when you do something wrong the teacher admonishes you in front of everyone for breaking an obvious rule. 

My life was made a misery and I mean no disrespect to people who have lived through atrocities, but I experienced school as if it were a concentration camp. Constantly scrutinising what I should be doing, whilst constantly feeling sick, with a hyperactive bladder and unsettled intestines -in a cloud of constant invisible panic. 

And the horrible thing is no-one seemed to notice or care. The only thing that was said was: "x is rather withdrawn". Or "she is very distracted and pays no attention". There was no reprieve from the moment I entered the gates until I got home. And from the moment I woke up I felt sick with nerves which I started feeling again before I went to bed, and really bad on Sunday evenings.

I doubt I am the only person with autism who felt that terrorised at school. And I fear that it is very invisible to the outside world just how bad it can be to the person experiencing it.

It just seems to accentuate the fact that autistic pupils really shouldn't be in these large classes where authority etc has to be maintained by the teacher in this manner. I still feel sad, angry and traumatised by my school experience.

Until I was 16 I was always in large classes with up to 28 pupils. Teachers felt they had to establish their authority - and more often than not I experienced that an example was set on me and I was ridiculed in front of the whole class. 

It is just horrible. You are under constant fear from attack from your classmates (don't do anything wrong or they will ridicule, constantly wondering if their reactions mean you did something wrong), you are straining to understand instructions and do things right (hopelessly untidy and clumsy, never have the right things with you, not knowing what you are supposed to be doing) and then when you do something wrong the teacher admonishes you in front of everyone for breaking an obvious rule. 

My life was made a misery and I mean no disrespect to people who have lived through atrocities, but I experienced school as if it were a concentration camp. Constantly scrutinising what I should be doing, whilst constantly feeling sick, with a hyperactive bladder and unsettled intestines -in a cloud of constant invisible panic. 

And the horrible thing is no-one seemed to notice or care. The only thing that was said was: "x is rather withdrawn". Or "she is very distracted and pays no attention". There was no reprieve from the moment I entered the gates until I got home. And from the moment I woke up I felt sick with nerves which I started feeling again before I went to bed, and really bad on Sunday evenings.

I doubt I am the only person with autism who felt that terrorised at school. And I fear that it is very invisible to the outside world just how bad it can be to the person experiencing it.